shopper
Americannoun
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shoppers
plural
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a person who shops.
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a retail buyer for another person or a business concern.
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a locally distributed newspaper of retail advertisements.
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Fashion giants on both sides of the Atlantic are underestimating the Chinese shopper at their own peril.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Supermarkets commonly offer deep discounts and promotional deals on turkeys, losing money so they can get it back when the shopper buys other ingredients and sides.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
But your robot shopper doesn’t watch TV, and if you’re outsourcing the shopping to it, you are not giving Amazon the same chance to harvest dollars from you as you walk through the digital store.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
The emergence of a new kind of online shopper, using these sites and willing to pay luxury prices for used pieces, has become so prominent that it is sometimes outshining the freshest runway trends.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
He's not really that much of a shopper, so I figured that if he had managed to find these things, they must have been right out in the open where anyone could have spotted them.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
Celebrities are sometimes spotted at the market, and this month New York resident and filmmaker Spike Lee was stopping for pictures with fellow shoppers.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
In recent months, the stores have only had a few pounds of rice and sugar for sale, leaving shoppers at the mercy of state-run supermarkets that operate in dollars or small private stores.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
WSJ | Buy Side: Shop the best Amazon Prime Big Deal Days sales, handpicked by our team of professional shoppers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
The Brunel Centre was once a thriving retail destination, attracting shoppers from far and wide.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
On Saturday afternoon Ben rounded the corner of River Street and heard Toomer’s voice calling out in a wailing summer canticle to the last shoppers of the day.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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